Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Nordea inks five year Web application outsourcing deal with Accenture

Nordea has inked a five year outsourcing contract with Accenture for the development and maintenance of applications to support the Scandinavian bank's Web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

07 April 2010

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Microsoft Surface lands in Australia

Microsoft has signed ANZ Bank as an early adopter of its multi-touch tabletop screen Surface technology, which is being made commercially available in Australia today.

09 February 2010

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Citi-backed social money comparison site Bundle launches

Bundle, a social media site backed by Citi, Microsoft and Morningstar that draws together financial information from across the US and puts it into a comparison tool that shows millions of spending trends across the country, has launched in beta.

20 January 2010

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Deutsche Bank and CBA join cloud computing group

Deutsche Bank and CBA are among the firms to have signed up to a new global Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council (ECBC), set up by the TM Forum to promote cloud technology.

15 December 2009

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Temenos and Microsoft form core banking alliance

Swiss core banking vendor Temenos has inked a commercial and technology agreement with US giant Microsoft.

10 December 2009

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Microsoft names Joe Pagano worldwide MD, banking and capital markets

Microsoft has promoted Joe Pagano to managing director of banking and capital markets in its worldwide financial services industry group.

07 December 2009

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Microsoft Surface technology helps first direct's Grand Design

Virtual bank first direct has tapped Microsoft's multi-touch screen Surface technology to help explain its mortgage products at the Grand Designs Live event.

30 October 2009

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MasterCard, Amex move into money management space

Mastercard is moving into the personal finance budgeting space with the launch of a Web-based tool that enables cardholders to categorise and monitor debit card spending. American Express meanwhile has launched a free online account aggregation and money management service.

15 October 2009

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Young Americans don't trust banks; want more social tech-driven communication - survey

US banks seeking to rebuild trust among young "millennials" should tap blogs and social networks to improve communication, according to a Microsoft sponsored survey.

01 October 2009

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Citi and Microsoft working on Mint rival - Bloomberg

Citi and Microsoft have joined forces to develop a personal finance management site that will take on Mint, the firm acquired by Intuit last month, according to Bloomberg.

28 September 2009

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Citi taps Microsoft for new e-banking service for corporates

Citi has enlisted the services of Microsoft for the development of its new online corporate banking service, which was launched at the annual Sibos event in Hong Kong.

15 September 2009

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Microsoft Silverlight to take on Flash in the dealing room

Microsoft is wooing the business community as it looks to take on Adobe's popular Flash suite with the latest release of its Silverlight Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit.

13 July 2009

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